Waneta Sunshine Rotary

A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
Steven Wright

I intend to live for ever. So far, so good.

Steven Wright

The meeting was held on Zoom at 7.15am with 6 members and guest Louise McEwan present

Music: Puff the Magic Dragon: Peter, Paul and Mary

• Business
• Food drive at Liberty Foods on September 30th. We will set up a schedule nearer the time.
• A Foodsafe course is available at Selkirk College in Trail on October 21st. $125 per person. See if we can sponsor a student from Trail YAN. We need to book. 5 of us want to do it. Maddy will contact Geoff.
• Next road clean up tentatively set for 14th October .
• Maddy will contact Geoff about restarting the cooking program once school starts.
• We have $3500 of Bingo money to use before the end of October. Next week we will allocate money.
• BV food bank is eligible for gaming funds.
• Juris will investigate us doing more tree planting in September at Fort Shepherd.
• Invite Lana from communities in bloom to talk to us if they are eligible for gaming funds.
• Invite carol from Senior’s games.
• Trail Yan through TACL is another possibility.
• The opening of the opening for the Garden of Gratitude at Columbia View lodge is on Thursday Sep 7th 10.30. 4 of us will go. We gave them $2000 towards the project.
• We may be able to get an express grant again from the district. We need ideas to apply and use this. Maddy will confirm.
• Program – Louise McEwan – School Aid
• Joan introduced Louise. School Aid program started 2010. It is run by the Catholic Church as a Non-denominational program to provide school supplies to low income kids in Trail/Rossland/BV area. Items in kits – typical items they need – pencils, notebooks, crayons, pens folders etc. Backpacks for elementary kids, lysol wipes included since covid. Program funded by donations. Church contacts the schools to find families that may need supplies. There has been less need in last few years. List confidential so only one person sees names. 104 packages this year. 2110 packages given since start. Cost is about $75 per student. Initially donations from church. Now from corporations and grants (Teck, CBT, Kiwanis, Columbia Power, Kootenay Savings) as well as individuals. Mills Office Supplies assembles the packages and gives a discount. January a top up is given in the form of gift certificates for Mills. Have met their budget for this year. Not eligible for gaming funds. We will consider them for next year if we have sufficient club funds.
• Next week September 1st In-person meeting at Bridgeview. We will confirm they are open. We will allocate bingo money.
• September 8th regular meeting.
• Happy and sad bucks (not) collected. The meeting adjourned at 7.45am